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Waters, SarahWinthrop,Elizabeth H.encounter with a handsome young manon the banks of the river Tyne looks setto change her life for the better. Buthandsome, psychopathic Brian Mooneyhas plans for Monica. In fact, Brian hasplans for lots of people.The Night WatchThe story of three women and a youngman with a past, who’s lives, and those oftheir friends and lovers, connect in waysthat are surprising not always known tothem. In wartime London, the womenwork as ambulance drivers, ministryclerks, and building inspectors. There arefeats of heroism, epic and quotidian, andtragedies both enormous and personal,but it is the emotional interiors of hercharacters that Waters captures withabsolute and intimacy.DecemberEleven-year-old Isabelle hasn’t spokenin nine months. Her mother has stoppedwork to devote herself full-time to herdaughter’s care. Four psychiatrists havealready given up on her, and her school,which until now has allowed her to studyfrom home, will not take her back in theNew Year. As her parents spiral aroundIsabelle’s impenetrable silence, she herselfemerges, in a fascinating portrait of anexceptional child, as a bright young girl inneed of help yet too terrified to ask for it.81